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Jul 25, 2025

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Enterprise

Google’s Firebase gets AI extensions, opens up its marketplace

Frederic Lardinois

May 10, 2023

Google updates its Firebase back-end-as-a-service to make app development faster

Frederic Lardinois

May 11, 2022

Google’s Flutter 3 adds support for macOS and Linux desktop apps

Frederic Lardinois

May 11, 2022

Startups

Supabase raises $80M Series B for its open source Firebase alternative

Frederic Lardinois

May 10, 2022

Enterprise

PubNub raises $65M to build and run data streams for messaging, presence and other real-time aspects of ‘virtual spaces’

Ingrid Lunden

Nov 4, 2021

Google updates Firebase with new personalization features, security tools and more

Frederic Lardinois

May 18, 2021

Featured

A new Android spyware masquerades as a ‘system update’

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Startups

Roboflow raises $2.1M for its end-to-end computer vision platform

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Jan 12, 2021

Startups

Supabase raises $6M for its open-source Firebase alternative

Frederic Lardinois

Dec 15, 2020

Startups

Kobiton raises a $5.2M Series A round for its mobile testing platform

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Aug 21, 2019

Enterprise

Google beefs up Firebase platform for the enterprise

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Oct 29, 2018

Media & Entertainment

Google improves Android App Bundles and makes building Instant Apps easier

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Oct 18, 2018

Google Firebase adds in-app messaging, JIRA integration, new reports and more

Frederic Lardinois

Aug 16, 2018

AI

Google’s ML Kit makes it easy to add AI smarts to iOS and Android apps

Frederic Lardinois

May 8, 2018

Google launches Cloud Firestore, a new document database for app developers

Frederic Lardinois

Oct 3, 2017

Google I/O 2017

Google Firebase gets Fabric integration, better analytics and an alpha program

Frederic Lardinois

May 17, 2017

Google integrates Firebase deeper into its Cloud Platform

Frederic Lardinois

Mar 9, 2017

Startups

Google acquires Fabric developer platform and team from Twitter

Josh Constine

Jan 18, 2017

Apple is screwing up HomeKit; here’s how they can fix it

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Sep 30, 2016

Google I/O 2016

Google turns Firebase into its unified platform for mobile developers

Frederic Lardinois

May 18, 2016

Batch Now Integrates With Firebase To Create A Parse Alternative

Romain Dillet

Feb 2, 2016

Google Partners With CloudFlare, Fastly, Level 3 And Highwinds To Help Developers Push Google Cloud Content To Users Faster

Frederic Lardinois

Sep 9, 2015

Startups

Google Acquires Firebase To Help Developers Build Better Real-Time Apps

Frederic Lardinois

Oct 21, 2014

Firebase Adds Web Hosting To Its Database Platform

Frederic Lardinois

May 13, 2014

Enterprise

Firebase Adds Zapier Integration, Pairing Real-Time Infrastructure With The Ability To Connect Multiple Apps

Nov 27, 2013

Startups

App Infrastructure Startup Firebase Raises $5.6M From Union Square And Flybridge

Anthony Ha

Jun 20, 2013

Startups

With Firepad, Firebase Adds Real-Time Text Collaboration To Its App Platform

Anthony Ha

Apr 9, 2013

Startups

Firebase Opens Its Real-Time App Infrastructure To All Developers

Anthony Ha

Feb 13, 2013

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